Archive for the ‘join up’ Category
It’s not about training, – it’s about trust
Written by Hiddenhorse on 05/04/2010 – 3:07 pm -It’s not about training, it’s about trust….
In the last post ‘The politics of join-up’, I looked at the join-up process primarily as an behavior based on negative reinforcement, I also looked at how join-up was a ritual that is part of the repertoire of ‘political’ behaviors which allow a horse to join a new herd or group. What I didn’t ask was why would a horse want to do this? Read more »
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The Politics of Join-up
Written by Hiddenhorse on 05/04/2010 – 12:52 pm -The Politics of Join-Up
For many people the first time they became aware of any kind of alternative methods of dealing with horses, it was when they first saw Monty Roberts demonstrating ‘join up’ ® . Until that time horse training methods had all been based on traditional knowledge, which usually meant doing what everybody else did, – because everybody else was doing it. As you will now know, this is what I call ‘utility model thinking’, based on the idea of the horse being defined by it’s function or utility. See other posts for more details on the utility model. Read more »
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